- Nov 07, 2020
Wish Quotes
On wishing for more - understanding, time, and change.
Wishing shows up here in very different registers: a scientist wishing ordinary language could capture atomic structure, a wish that Israelis could witness daily life across the border firsthand, and a simple wish to take on more creative work. I Wish continues the theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
- Uncertainty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Major organizational changes create uncertainty. But the point is to move quickly - faster than you are comfortable - because in hindsight, you will always wish you had made changes even sooner.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joke about it a lot, but I be serious as a heart attack when I say it: I don't wish that on nobody, not being able to play.
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.
- Nov 07, 2020
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
- Nov 07, 2020
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
- Poets
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- Nov 07, 2020